[78-L] Are Long Messages OK Here? (within reason)

[Kristjan Saag]

Our problem, at the moment, is not long or short messages, but messages 
or no messages.
So, go ahead, whatever your preferences. As long as netiquette is respected.
Kristjan




On 2020-03-03 19:48, DKing wrote:
> Thanks for that feedback, Kristjan. After hitting the “send” key I had 
> second thoughts. In fact I may have sent this message out already this 
> morning - but actually did hit the wrong key. - Dave King
>> On Mar 3, 2020, at 2:43 AM, Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com.invalid> 
>> wrote: Nothing is more welcome than stories of this kind, as far as 
>> I'm concerned. Kristjan
>> On 2020-03-03 07:52, DKing wrote:
>>> Hello All, I hope my long message wasn’t out of line here. But I 
>>> honestly hadn’t thought about hearing that family story until I 
>>> listened to “Ten Little Bottles” kindly posted by Peter Muhr. If 
>>> long messages like mine are frowned upon, please let me know, as I’m 
>>> still relatively new here. - Dave King
>>>> On Mar 2, 2020, at 6:04 PM, DKing <ginku_ledovec at att.net.invalid> 
>>>> wrote: Thanks, Peter. I enjoyed the song. Some of my Irish 
>>>> forebears would have thought that song was scandalous, lol. True 
>>>> story: when I was much younger, I remember my older relatives 
>>>> laughing among themselves - because of the blue air letter one of 
>>>> them received from one of the cousins back in the “old country”. 
>>>> One of our cousins lived in the same small town as a woman who’d 
>>>> suddenly lost her husband after many years. The woman began to go 
>>>> through everything in what amounted to a “man cave” left behind by 
>>>> her now deceased husband. She found a locked closet in there that 
>>>> she hadn’t thought about for years. Managing to finally get the 
>>>> closet open, she went into shock. She and her husband had been 
>>>> teetotalers for many years. But the closet was full of empty rye 
>>>> and whiskey bottles. Apparently the damp Irish climate called for a 
>>>> nip now & then to help ward off the chill. The wife faced a 
>>>> predicament: if she threw out all the bottles at once, her 
>>>> neighbors would learn of the dead husband’s secret. And if she only 
>>>> threw one out at a time, her neighbors and relatives would hear of 
>>>> it and think she had taken to drink after her husband’s death. 
>>>> Either choice would have created a minor scandal back then. I 
>>>> honestly don’t know what she did with the bottles. It was a long 
>>>> time ago and I don’t remember hearing or being told how she 
>>>> disposed of the bottles. “Ten Little Bottles” reminded me of the 
>>>> story. - Dave King
>>>>> On Mar 2, 2020, at 1:04 PM, Peter Muhr <pemuhr at gmail.com.invalid> 
>>>>> wrote: Sorry, 1st word of the next to last stanza should be "TWO 
>>>>> little bottles...", of course…. On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 4:01 PM 
>>>>> Peter Muhr <pemuhr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Ten Little Bottles" by Ballard MacDonald & James V. Monaco, sung 
>>>>>> by Jack Norworth on Pathe 20458 b/w "I'm on Strike", released ca. 
>>>>>> early 1920. "Ten little bottles standing on the shelf, hard luck 
>>>>>> had only begun for my wife's mother went and got the flu, and 
>>>>>> that left only one". YouTube: 
>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOYH418LR-0?rel=0 Peter Muhr On 
>>>>>> Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 12:44 PM DKing 
>>>>>> <ginku_ledovec at att.net.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello Everyone, Did any early recorded music refer to the flu 
>>>>>>> pandemic of 1918-19? Or maybe it was so traumatic that people 
>>>>>>> just wanted to forget about it ... - Dave King 
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